China is being accused of rigging the Miss World 2010 competition to ensure a loss for Norway, the nation which it holds responsible for awarding one of its political prisoners a Nobel Peace Prize.

Additionally, the Chinese audience refused to acknowledge Miss Japan, and a Miss Taiwan was out of the question.

Miss Norway (Mariann Birkedal, above) was the favourite for winning the beauty pageant this year – but mysteriously she did not even make it into the top 5 and the dubious honour instead went to Miss USA (Alexandria Mills, below), a decision observers have widely ascribed to pressure from the competition’s Chinese hosts.

Just what material action it can take against distant and oil-bloated Norway is not clear, but it is already noted for instigating all the petty snubs and shady meddling it can against foreigners who dare to defy party policy.

Miss Japan also fell victim to classy displays of nationalist bile, as the largely Chinese audience refused to cheer or acknowledge her, perhaps fearing that do so would somehow constitute support of Japanese sovereignty over the Senkaku Islands.

As if all this were not enough, China refused to allow a Taiwanese entry to the contest because of its long-standing insistence that Taiwan submit to Chinese domination rather than pursue its unreasonable desire for democratic self-determination.

Whilst anyone could be forgiven for not caring which of the all but identical emaciated strumpets on display was crowned Miss World this time, that China feels the need to hijack even this petty media circus in pursuit of its crude propaganda efforts is yet another sad reminder of just why so many are mistrustful of China’s growing international presence.

I’m Chinese, and I think that Japanese girl doesn’t look too bad. Sure, she’s “average” by model standards, but chances are 90% of the attractive Asian women you see in the media have had surgery of some sort, or probably have an incredible mass of makeup on their faces. I can see why she wouldn’t appeal to the general audience among the other ladies there, but you know, looks aren’t everything.

It’s funny how all the comments that question this accusation even mildly get voted down, despite the fact that no one’s been able to produce any solid evidence yet. Ironically shows that the weeaboos here are more butthurt than the Chinese government.

Having said that, I have no doubt that this comment will be voted down into oblivion to prove my point. Go ahead, click that little (-). Butthurt Wapanese faggots gonna be butthurt.

..I’ve seen too many people hurrying to bash China when they don’t even know what the news is exactly talking about, and I’ve seen people bashing endlessly about some sensitive area when they even have no idea of its location ╮(╯_╰)╭
I don’t deny that there are masses of problems and I will acknowledge them if one questions me, but I wouldn’t bash sth. when it’s not the fact, or, when I don’t have reasonable evidences.
Ha-ha. I just get amused whenever I see someone talks about brainwash when he also receives influences from the media surrounding him.

A little add-on. Everybody gets influences from media, and the media surrounding often speaks for politics, the difference is just the extent.
I don’t feel like arguing about politics now, it’s just…I dislike the attitude that “I hate sth so everything related to it should be bashed, I don’t care what it is”. I know the word “China” attracts critics easily, no matter what the information is about——economics, technology, culture, custom, history, landscape, or just anything that has this word written on.

Well, I don’t have the mood to argue about politics, indeed. I love Japanese acg, some works from the U.S., and some short films from Europe are quite impressive. I even got amazed when I found several Chinese anime that are making great improvement. I always think that REAL acg lovers shouldn’t be too rash. Watch anime(from various countries) more quietly, and the world around you will be better.

Solid evidence? Obviously those two words are too hard for them to comprehend.

Knowing their reason behind the bashing, there’s no need for solid evidence. As long as the thread contains the word “China”, it screams for their bash mode activation. A clear demonstration of how our media brainwashed the children while they comfortably serve the net, thinking “Thank God we didn’t get brainwashed like the Chinese by their own government’s propaganda and censorship”.

I do not harbor love for the Chinese government, but to blindly insult a nation because you can spurt out irresponsible garbage on the internet just shows how pathetic the current and next generation of kids are gonna grow up like.

This article is so biased. Everyone bashing on China is just looking for more arsenal to lambaste China with, while blindly being ignorant of how ridiculously dubious the claims are in this article.

Just looking at Japan’s contestant puts me to sleep. I can understand why the audience wasn’t very enthusiastic about her. It’s hard to believe she would garner any support even amongst non-Chinese audience members based on her ‘beauty’ alone.

Forget it dude. It doesn’t matter where the source is from. Most users here only care for the bashing of China articles regardless of it’s validity. As long as they got a reason to bitch and moan about, they’re happy in their little weeaboo world. I know China’s has plenty of problems as is and it’s government is corrupt to the bone, but by god the ignorance of politics and general worldly matters these people show off is tremendously pitiful. They like turning a blind eye to their own hypocrisy or they truly are in denial.

LOL. Lots of sour lemons on this post, if you want WW3 so badly, join the army and put yourself in the frontline so you can kill some Chinese when the time comes. Otherwise shut your whiny traps and grow up.

Oh c’mon Artefact…The Daily Mail…really? It’s equivelant to Fox News in the US. I thought this article of yours was filled with more emotive language than the usual, alot more than usual.

Anyway…I really do wonder if this wouldn’t happen elsewhere should there be tensions between political relations of other countries, if the “rigging” was true. I’d doubt Japan would give a fair game to Korea or China if they hosted Miss World in retrospect. Well it’s funny to see typical weeaboo’s and haters get trolled by this article. Just like Lolicons to a Konata Izumi Dakimakura.

sports is rigged, politics is rigged, beauty pageant is rigged, everything is rigged. china is not the only culprit. i think miss universe is rigged, couple years ago the girl place top 5 despite falling over. who cares, we all know its rigged but still watch it .

They did a great job at the olympics. What’s with all the chinese hate? am not chinese but china is one of my favorite countries to visit, i don’t like the government, but everything else about it is great.

Ms. Hawaii participated as a representative of one of the 50 states of America, not some self-proclaimed nation. Of course China wouldn’t recognize Ms. Taiwan, that’s like acknowledging Taiwan’s independence. Now if Taiwan used Chinese Taipei, like they always did in the Olympics, the candidate might have a chance.

Well if the USA doesn’t get there act together, China would be the only Super Power. Man the world thinks the USA GOV is a asshole? Ha just wait how much China can be a asshole. All dictators are asshole, but in a democracy you can vote the son of a bitches out.
Now for China, ha ha ha yeah the Chinese Citizens can vote them out. >_>

Anyway all Governments of the world are assholes one way or the other. Be glad if you lived in a voting system you can vote them out.

I don’t think the world is ready for a asshole China, as for these reactions China is doing. Man they are just getting started. It just shows what to expect when they really bexome Super powerful worse if they become the only Super Power.

Shame the Chinese people are subject to the petty, underhanded government they have in place right now. That’s not to say that nationalist idiocy wouldn’t exist with a different government (just look at some of the things the Japanese do with a traditional parliamentary democracy), but certainly their current government is giving the Chinese people a bad name while the people themselves have little power to change it. Well, we’ll see how long that government stays in place if it continues its aggressive policies–after all, besides the US and Japan, China also has India and Russia as competitive neighbors that likely won’t stand for continued imperial ambitions.

WOW, they booed Miss Japan and there bad people? seriously rival countries always boo each other, in anything it’s not just china. Seriously it looks like this site is becoming more and more anti chinese.

What………. Fascism is Authoritarian which opposes ‘democracy’. Actual Communism is democratic. How is this remotely compatible? Having a single government can lead to fascism if that government ends up corrupt as shit (Which all of them have to my knowledge). But I don’t think your statement is correct when compared to what communism actually is, not what China, USSR, etc. called communism.

i don’t think they’re making it up just because this site reports things the “main stream media” refuse to talk about doesn’t mean it’s made up if anything i think the main stream news is fake and these guys are factual IMO

E.g. they decided to cancel the planned high-level meeting with norwegian minister of trade and a slew of oil companies representatives, a meeting we know they were very interested in holding due to not only our oil reserves but also for our expertise.

Funny thing is; an ‘unofficial’ meeting ended up taking place where only the lower rank of bureaucrats of both sides were present. And that meeting wasn’t just highly productive, it also extended far beyond the time allocated and included an understanding that chinese representatives would come to norway in order to learn more about norway’s oil industry and environmental protection policies.

So this is all mostly a show put on in order for China to show they’re displeased with Norway, as long as it doesn’t actually interfere with money making.

indeed they are they really need to settle down some and seriously too all this “china whining about shit” is really getting annoying the chinese government needs to relax other wise the rest of the world will just start alienating them from fear of them throwing a tantrum

seriously china it’s time to stop behaving like a brat and start acting your age hell you have more history than some continents wtf!?

when is any competition ever fair? theres always some shit going on, whether we know it or not. could be as little as a negative comment made from one person to another to mentally sabotage their competition. n this is china, they can do what they want..

from what i can see. that japanese girl is ugly, who cares if she lost. taiwanese is about something that goes far back, i can only sympathize with norway

I very rarely find any of the Miss World contestants that attractive, but Alexandria Mills is prettier imo. That aside China is one of the most arrogant petty and corrupt countries in the world. Everything they seem to do is some kind of provocation, like they want to start a war of supremacy.

Why do people actually bother arguing which nation has good females or not? They call can if you pick the cream of the crop. American women who works out can be right up there with anyone as is any other national’s.

Friendly German anon here, I can vouch for this to be utter and complete bullshit.
We get beaten and bruised with books purely about the holocaust and WWII.
Most classes and schools even visit former concentration camps.

If there’s one thing Germans get educated on, it’s the holocaust and the third Reich.
You thought America was anal about being PC?
Try living here.

anon @ 13:16
i think the last place a scandal like this would be heard is in the country it takes place in. for instance, in germany, the vast majority of people who live there don’t believe the holocost took place. they believe it is a lie. at least that is what the text books say.

Its silly how ‘China’ is mad at ‘Norway’. It’s just a few guys who decides upon the Nobel prize, it’s not as if the entire country has anything to do with it. Some countries seem as if their entire population is one unit.

Sigh. More rabid and unsupported anti-Chinese mythology from Sankaku. What else is new? The real problem is that the Japanese and Western press seems to like to indulge in this simplistic stuff, too. Do we really need to create enemies? Is it for our sense of self-worth or what?